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Yep I'm suddenly sitting up and paying attention - Weds PM through the weekend shows wintryness potential throughout in Upper Tweedale. Not counting chickens but those XC forecasts keep on coming;

Eighth air frost at -1.1°C. Grey, still, cold. Marked contrast to yesterday:

Ooooo Ooooo me too!

Seventh air frost at - 0.4°C. Currently 2.7°C. Frost hanging on.... Lovely light yesterday afternoon:

Yesterday's dog walk in the woods above Coulter Water. Was incredibly noisy in the gale - trees swinging side to side. Photo looking from on high down into the Clyde Valley, with Cornhill Castle in the far distance.

Saturday is starting to look interesting - -4C/-5C uppers, precipitation about. Surface at 2-4C depending on height asl...

Interesting article here about the effect on data feeding the models of far fewer flights than normal:

Got down to 4.0C last night, and has been hovering around 6C all day until the last hour or so - now at 9.2C. Windy out there, dark, rain, wind, did I mention the rain? Guinea fowl huddled around the chimney. In coming shower....

Sixth air frost at 21.30 last night at 0.0C Then at 22.00 these showers came over and it rained at 0.2C.

The Tweed today, compared to late April...

Max of 10.7°C, brightness then grey, then rain and this evening that line of torrential downpours didn't disappoint. Couple of minutes after taking the shot, I was distracted by an animal moving in front of the trees. Black, size of a doberman, moving fast and reminiscent of a cat.... Ran until out of sight down the valley in the rapidly failing light. Nobody else about - all very spooky. Am going to report the sighting on the big cat site....

Is it just me or did the TV forecasts for today turn out to be hopelessly wrong? I was expecting a wee bit of dampness and a passing lightish shower having seen a couple of yesterday's forecasts in between the US election news. And it's pished it down for hours....

Beauty of a day yesterday: Which then led to my fifth air frost at - 1.1°C.

Thought this a worthy photo to share from dog walk: Sunny, chilly, still. Was down to 3.2C overnight. Wonder how low it will push over the next couple...?

The 60mph gusts in that squall took the cowling off my chimney. Grrr. Tweed was busy all afternoon and flooded the valley:

Don't worry @Puffy MacCloudthat drizzle will soon turn into torrential rain. I'm planning on walking the dog around 2.45pm - so around then would be about right.

Media reporting that we have the equivalent of ten times the size of Germany currently unfrozen compared to the mid 1980s. That quote brings it home for me.

What is the plan over there @CatchMyDrift? Couple of shots summing up this afternoon's weather. Up to 9.3°C.

October summed up by New Model Army's 'Autumn' (Sullivan / Nelson / Dean / White / Gill) 2009 Across the land the air is still The leaves are falling golden one by one Like the paper money falls Or the soldiers stealing homeward There is only beginning And there is beginning of the end All the peoples are moving Like the waters of a great flood And everything is beautiful Because everything is dying So we went down to the beach And built a fire to remember We took the last bottle of wine And drank a toast to mortality And we scrawled across the cold wet sand With our bare feet ‘We Told You So' And watched the waves steal it away I caught you smile and I heard you say Everything is beautiful Because everything is dying So who wants to live forever When these moments will only come the once? Staring into the embers of the fire... And everything is beautiful Only because everything is dying

Today's walk looking south over the Uplands. Not warm, not cold, not dry, not really wet, not windy, not bright, not dull.

Not this time! Think the frost might have seen off the fly agaric? Too high for the other type. (Altitude, I meant altitude).

Pouring down most of the day. When it wasn't it was heavy drizzle or smirry rain. Walk in the woods with Finn:

In other news I see the Cairngorm Funicular is to be repaired: /media/8775/charlotte-wright-photo-by-ewen-weatherspoon.jpg £20.51 million to unlock Cairngorm’s potential WWW.HIE.CO.UK Cairngorm will benefit from more than £20 million to make it a year-round attraction, generating significant economic benefits for...

Lovely day high up above Tweeddale. Went off piste and ended up pinned against a deer fence descending the hill. Not so good. Pretty though.

Quick photo that sums up yesterday